331 Graham (Maria) Journal of a Residence in Chile, plates, calf extra, gilt edges, by C. Lewis 4to. 1824 / The following note is written by Mr. Beckford on fly-leaf: p. 386. “‘The blessed Virgin or some other heavenly Chimera’—happy expression to be sure—highly recommendatory for the future governess of Prince of Brazil. p. 426 And is it possible that, Maria Graham, a professed scribbleress and little more, could ever have been encouraged even to dream of such a situation? Had she been a professed Cook, for which useful art—from the frequent mention of dainty morsels and savoury dishes in different pages of her Tours I rather conjecture she has some vocation—one might have seen some cause for the appointment. It is impossible in these revolutionary times to foresee all the degradation to which princesses may be compelled to stoop, and a knowledge of cookery skilfully instilled may turn out upon the spur of occasion a most happy accomplishment.’”
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I return to my pen to write one other sentence. My father married Mary Lowe a year after my mother’s death. Ah, there John speaks. / “Isola, put down that pen.” / “I won’t.” / “You must.” / “You tyrant!” / “Put it down, you little goose, and come out for a walk. No wife of mine is going to be a scribbleress.”
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I sighed. “Doubtless you are right, but I will cling to ‘editor’ and ‘author,’ nevertheless, and repeat the esses only when I fear being laughed at.” / “You will regret it,” groaned my mentor. / “Well, then, will this satisfy you?” said I. “That old tyrant, Grammar, has, by the aid of editors and editresses, critics and criticesses, slain his thousands and tens of thousands of authors and authoresses, scribblers and scribbleresses.”
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We have heretofore spoken of that insolent caricature of Southern women, “Hose of Carolina,” by Mrs. Rebecca Harding Davis, a Yankee scribbleress, and of her more recent “Qualla,” a gushing story of a trip to the Cherokee region of North Carolina, and of the remarkable absence of honesty, decency, and intelligence among that people, as, indeed, among the inhabitants of Western North Carolina in general.
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